"...between you and I"...?

An argument can be made, I suppose, that there is occasional merit in reproducing in informal writing the usages and rhythms of colloquial speech -- I think we've all said "it's going real slow" a time or two, and the Republic, such as it is, continues to stand. If you'd dropped that correction on my blog I'm pretty sure that would have been my retort.

I'm no great fan of Strunk and White for any number of reasons. It's not only permissible but one's artistic duty to break their mean little homiletic strictures when one wishes to achieve a desired effect. Writing would be dull porridge indeed if rule-bound editors followed The Elements of Style down to the last jot and tittle, much as music would be deadly boring were composers forbidden from breaking the rules of eighteenth-century polyphonic theory. I think that somewhere in "between-you-and-I"-Boy's labyrinthine self-justification this point lurks. But trotting out "evaluative regression in linguistic constructs through hierarchical categorization in both fixed medium and verbal locutions" (there should be a hyphen between "fixed" and "medium," btw, or the phrase is garbled at best) is simply (or should that be "simple"?) nothing more than willy-waving in the face of perceived injury to his pride.

He is, I believe, safely ignored.